WordPress/Installation

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Installation done on a VM running Ubuntu 14.04LTS

Download required packages

On a LAMP setup make sure to download the standard packages

~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y apache2 mysql-server php5-mysql php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt 

If you already have LAMP installed, all WordPress needs is

~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y php5-gd libssh2-php

Configure MySQL

login to db

~$ mysql -u root -p

Create mysql wordpress user

~$ mysql> CREATE USER 'wordpress'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'THISpasswordSHOULDbeCHANGED';
~$ mysql> exit

login as new user to verify account works

~$ mysql -u wordpress -p
~$ mysql> exit

create DB

~$ mysql -u root -p
~$ mysql> CREATE DATABASE wordpress;

verify DB creation

~$ mysql> SHOW DATABASES;

assign rights to wiki user for new database created

~$ mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpress'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'phpBBuserpassword' WITH GRANT OPTION;  
~$ mysql> exit

verify permissions have been granted

~$ mysql -u wordpress -p
~$ mysql> SHOW GRANTS;
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Grants for wordpress@localhost                                                                                   |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'wordpress'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' |
| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `wordpress`.* TO 'wordpress'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION                               |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Download Wordpress

download the latest version from their latest version URL

~$ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

probably would be a good idea to rename the tarball as it's not very descriptive

~$ $ mv ./latest.tar.gz ./wordpress4.0.tar.gz

As of 10/4/2014 There are no MD5 or GPG verification methods to make sure the copy you've downloaded hasn't been tampered with. Maybe one day the devs of WordPress can join the rest of the Dev community and start taking security seriously.


create your site's directory where wordpress will live. If you're using a subsite design make sure to create the directories in the same path structure.

~$ mkdir /var/www/yoursite.com/

make sure your apache user has appropriate permissions to write to this directory

~$ chown www-data:www-data /var/www/yoursite.com/

export the downloaded tar to the site directory

~$ tar -C /var/www/yoursite.com/ -zxf latest.tar.gz
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